AVHRR_PATHFINDER_L3_SST_DAILY_DAYTIME_V5_1

PODAAC-PATHF-DYD50

Version 1

AbstractMultichannel sea surface temperature (SST) products have been constructed operationally from the five-channel AVHRR by NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) since late 1981. The AVHRR Oceans Pathfinder seeks to expand on this work by developing a satellite SST database for global climate studies, yielding a consistent time series (more than 18 years) that incorporates extensive calibration and validation information. Version 5.0 of the data set is a collaborative effort between NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS), and NASA's Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC).